World Statistics Bank

The World Statistics Bank (abbreviated WSB) is an international organisation dedicated to the transparent publication of statistics across Maia. Most of the statistics regard topics such as national and economic performance, corruption, population, and tourism.

All statistics are produced from independent research, though the organisation has been criticised by left-wing groups such as the WMU and SEPO as "a capitalist mouthpiece". Despite this, it is widely regarded as the most influential statistics company in Maia, and is commonly quoted by various national politicians.

Location
The country is seeking to establish a headquarters in 2018-19. Countries are able to submit up to three potential cities, with the winner being selected under the criteria of human rights record, infrastructure and transport links, and transparency. As of 3 July 2018, the following cities have been nominated as potential locations;


 * (2) – Farsknordi, Cité de Noufrançais
 * (0) – Contact Josh on Skype or Discord to apply!

Statistic-based ratings published by the WSB
In 2018, the WSB published a series of statistic-based ratings and rankings for each country on a variety of factors. These can be seen below.

Economic performance by country
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Population by country
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Transparency by country
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Human rights record by country
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Behind the scenes
I'll be using this as a way to rank countries from "very high" to "very low" in the aforementioned factors, and this will also serve to centralise general stats relating to countries.

I hope this will make nation-based roleplay easier, and encourage others to join. I'll be going off whatever is entered to each country's wikipage for this, so I urge those who haven't filled theirs out to let me know they intend to do so, otherwise I'll create something. Any pages that are considered unrealistic will have their figures altered for RP reasons, so please don't give yourself a population of a half-billion in a microstate or anything like that. Common sense is key.